Explanations for obedience A03

Question 1

What is a strength for the explanations for obedience (m.r)

Answer 1

Milgram’s research

Question 2

What is evidence for Milgram’s research being a strength for explanations of obedience

Answer 2

• The experimenter accepts responsibility for any harm to the learner
• The scientist as indicated by the uniform of a lab coat has legitimate authority
  -Uniform variation
  -proximity variation

Question 3

Explanation for Milgram’s research being a strength for explanations of obedience

Answer 3

His participants acted with extreme obedience due to being in an agent change. As the researcher takes responsibility the participant “acts on behalf” of the researcher Obedience dropped in the uniform variation due to a reduction In the legitimacy of authority and in the proximity variation because it was more difficult for participants to stay in the agent state

Question 4

What is a limitation for Milgram’s research support i.e can be used as A03 for explanations for obedience (m.f)

Answer 4

Methological flaws

Question 5

Evidence for the limitation for Milgram’s research support (m.f)

Answer 5

Orne & Holland (1968) claim the task was so unusual that the participants figured out they weren’t actually shocking anyone and acted demand characteristics. (lack of ecological validity and mundane realism.

Question 6

What is a limitation for Milgram’s research support (s.f.o.d)

Answer 6

35% resisted the authority figure this level of resistance cant be explained by situational factors alone.

Question 7

Explanation for (s.f.o.d) as a limitation to Milgram’s research support

Answer 7

factors of agent state and legitimacy of authority because each participant had the sam

Question 8

What does Adorno’s dispositional “authoritarian personality” theory acknowledge

Answer 8

the willingness to obey an authority figure varies from person to person, offering an explanation to why there are exteme variations in Milgram’s participant

Question 9

What is a strength of Milgram’s research (s.p)

Answer 9

Use of standardised procedures

Question 10

Evidence for a strength of Milgram’s research (s.p)

Answer 10

use of pre recordings for the participant responses, clear scripts for the experimenter to follow making it a high level of control

Question 11

Explanation for a strength of Milgram’s research (s.p)

Answer 11

Ensured every participant had the same experience. The clear instructions enabled replications for example Blass ( 2012) to be reliable both across eight additional countries and time periods

Question 12

What is research support for Adorno’s study (e.m)

Answer 12

Elms and Morgan 1966

Question 13

Evidence for research

Answer 13

Twenty obedient males who had given the highest level of shock in Milgram’s study and twenty who had refused were given the F-scale